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Morenga (1985)
Based on a novel of the same title by Uwe Timm and set in 1904 in South Africa, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins. Gottschalk (Jacques Breuer) and Wenstrup (Edwin Noel) are two German veterinarians who have settled in German Southwest Africa to tend to the needs of cattle ranchers. When a rebellion by a local dissident named Morenga (Ken Gampu) is brutally crushed by the Germans, the two vets get involved, at great risk to themselves, and offer help to the native revolutionaries. What follows is a sequence of battles and skirmishes that ultimately lead to Morenga seeking asylum in South Africa, where the ruling Brits are about as trustworthy as their German counterparts. Morenga was nominated for a Golden Bear award at the 1985 Berlin Film Festival.
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Cast
Jacques Breuer
Oberveterinär Gottschalk
Manfred Seipold
Hauptmann Hans von Koppy
Herbert Weißbach
Oberst Berthold Deimling
Harry Riebauer
v. Estorff
Edwin Noël
Unterveterinär Wenstrup
Crew
Egon Günther
Director
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